Compass IT Compliance Blog

Nest Cameras – Basic Defense In Depth

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I’m sure many of you have seen or heard of the recently released viral video showing a young girl being yelled at in her room via her internet connected Nest camera. Obviously, this was on a home network, but it occurred to me that a large amount of commercial entities also have inter …

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The FFIEC Gives the BCP Booklet a Facelift

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From BCP to BCM The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) Information Technology Examination Handbook (IT Handbook) is comprised of several IT booklets for use by examiners. In November of 2019, the FFIEC member agencies replaced the dated “Business Continuity Pla …

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Virtual CISO: What’s the Benefit?

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The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is a vital role within most organizations. Tasked with establishing and maintaining the organizational vision, strategy, and program to ensure information technology assets are adequately protected, this individual is often your primary de …

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Incident Response for Real

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Organizations are finally beginning to implement some type of incident response plans. Most of these plans revolve around NIST 800-61 Computer Security Incident Handling Guide. This guide is an amazing framework to help your organization get something in place, however, just referenci …

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What You Can Do to Better Prepare Yourself for Holiday Scams

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It’s that time of the year again! With the holiday season upon us, many criminals will be attempting to scam people via phishing emails. This time of the year (Black Friday, Christmas) is the most lucrative for attackers due to the fact that stores are having a crazy amount of sales w …

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Guide to Improving Your Security Awareness Training

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For the past 3 years that I’ve worked at Compass IT Compliance, I’ve had the opportunity to travel the country and meet with various clients ranging from small businesses with less than 10 people to organizations with offices around the world. The main constant that I have noticed wit …

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